bone-marrow transplant

[bohn-mar-oh] /ˈboʊnˌmær oʊ/

noun

1.

Surgery. a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer, or by exposure to radiation.